Get Started with the Flashpoint Education Platform

Course Description

Course Objective

This course will help you set up and run a complete Flashpoint Education Platform, and create your first course! This focuses exclusively on the "Course" aspects of Flashpoint, and is targeted to non-developers who want to set up a free, basic course website for delivering course content.

Additional courses will focus on additional features for Flashpoint, along with writing custom extensions.

Course Components

Install and configure the Flashpoint Course, Flashpoint Course Content, and Flashpoint Course Module modules
Set up user profile blocks and a Courses page
Create a course with course content, divided into modules

Module 1: Introduction to Flashpoint

1.1 Introduction to Flashpoint

Module 2: Install Flashpoint

2.1 Download and Install
2.2 Enable Modules
2.3.1 Set up Flashpoint LRS - Instructions
2.3.2 Set up Flashpoint LRS: Video
2.4 Flashpoint LRS classes

Module 3: Set up profile blocks and courses page

3.1 Profile Blocks
3.2.1 Courses Page - Instructions
3.2.2 Courses Page - Video

Module 4: Create Courses!

4.1 Create a Course
4.2 Set up Course Access

Module 5: Set up Course Modules and Content

5.1 Add Course Modules
5.2 Add Course Content
5.3 Set up pass requirements and prerequisites

Module 6: Create a Community!

Module 7: Connect Courses and Communities

Module 8: For Developers

6.1 Flashpoint Entities
6.2 Flashpoint Plugins